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Conan O’Brien on 60 Minutes: What Becomes of the Broken Hearted

What’s another 37 minutes between friends? That’s how long into the broadcast 60 Minutes waited to air Steve Kroft’s interview with Conan O’B rien, the first time the former Tonight Show host appeared on television since February 20th. And while most of the juicy details had already been previewed — as it turns out, Conan would have handled this entire situation a bit differently than Jay Leno — the interview still held some surprises. Namely, how the Great Late Night War of 2010 left the nominally unwavering Coco fairly damaged.

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Patton Oswalt Attacks Nobody For Stealing Material

What does a guy do after the Broadway show he’s starring in gets canceled because of his performance and then he’s removed from a comedy pilot after the first table reading? Well, if he’s Patton Oswalt , he scours the Internet to find out if disingenuous no-talents are stealing his stand-up material! Oswalt took to MySpace — God love you, Patton, but really: MySpace ? — to out a pathetic joke stealer named Nick Madson, an Iowa comedian who did Oswalt’s routine at a club on Wednesday. Needless to say: Someone get Madson a helmet.

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Spirit of the Festival: Tribeca Audiences Crown Their Favorite

What do a kufi hat-wearing James Cromwell, Jeffrey Wells and thousands of Heineken bottles have in common? They were all present at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival Awards Wrap Party last night. And while the name of the event was a bit misleading — the main Tribeca awards were announced Thursday — there was one piece of hardware handed out: the Heineken sponsored audience award, which went to the rock documentary Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage . Because if there’s one thing everyone knows about New Yorkers, it’s their fierce love of prog rock. After the jump, the top-ten audiences choices — congrats to all the winners.

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The Ishtar of Books: Why Peter Biskind’s Warren Beatty Bio Stalled

Haven’t gotten around to reading Star , Peter Biskind’s biography of Warren Beatty? Better question: Hadn’t even realized it exists? Well, you’re not alone. The industry-anticipated book has bombed with regular readers since its release in a way that recalls Ishtar or Town and Country . So what happened? Look no further than the introduction.

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Come On, Get Happy

And so another week — another month! Oy! — closes at Movieline. It was a blur, but we’ll piece it all together with the help of the good-old Week in Review. Make sure to check back with weekend editor Christopher Rosen on Saturday, and have a good one!

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Virtual Newsstand: Movieline.com, April 2010

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Dark Knight Sequel Gets Release Date

A very excited Warner Bros. announced today that the long-awaited follow-up to The Dark Knight finally has a release date: July 20, 2012. The film doesn’t yet have a title, a cast, a plot, a director (though Christopher Nolan is widely assumed to be helming), or a format announcement (3D? IMAX ? Both?) but what would be the fun in divulging those? British tabloids need something to guess about . [ Box Office Mojo ]

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This Weekend on Cable: 4 Movies Worth Adding to Your Permanent Collection

And now, Movieline’s home-viewing guru Michael Atkinson introduces a new feature dedicated to this weekend’s most recordable films on a movie channel near you. I don’t much trust the “cloud” — what if a comet hit the Earth and took out all of those data-center servers? Then where’d your “copy” of Radiohead’s full catalog be? I like to have copies I can hold, and I say, movie channels are rewarding sources of movies for when that comet hits. Then, all you’d need is a generator, a DVD player and your DVD -R rip of Children of Men to have a Saturday night.*

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Michael Caine on Harry Brown, Paycheck Roles and Why the British Do Dystopia Best

The grim, almost impossibly violent Harry Brown will no doubt draw endless comparisons to Dirty Harry and other risible exemplars of do-it-yourself crimefighting. But beyond the grit of the British projects where lawless hell descends, the film truly thrives in the quiet dignity afforded by leading man Michael Caine. Even as his ex-Marine title character goes to war against the subculture of hoodlums, addicts, dealers and thieves, the 77-year-old acting legend reinforces the bloodshed with purpose and gravitas. Clearly there’s a little something more going on here than just target practice; Brown’s mission to restore order is perhaps secondary only to Caine’s own to effect change.

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